Alert archive / Colorado / Tornado Watches in 2025
Tornado Watch 564
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Aug 1, 2025, 2:46 PM MDT for 6 counties in Colorado; 5 counties in Nebraska; Goshen County, Laramie County, Platte County, Wyoming. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 1, 2025, 2:46 PM MDT (20:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 1, 2025, 9:53 PM MDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 3 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
Counties Logan County, CO, Morgan County, CO, Phillips County, CO, Sedgwick County, CO, Washington County, CO, Weld County, CO, Banner County, NE, Cheyenne County, NE, Kimball County, NE, Morrill County, NE, Scotts Bluff County, NE, Goshen County, WY, Laramie County, WY, Platte County, WY
The radar
The Cheyenne radar (KCYS), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What SPC expected
The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.
- Two or more tornadoes
- 30%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 20%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 50%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 20%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 50%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 50%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 80%
Warnings issued inside it
14 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 1, 3:08 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Goshen, Platte | 20 min |
| Aug 1, 4:46 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Adams, Weld | 29 min |
| Aug 1, 4:52 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Banner, Kimball | 38 min |
| Aug 1, 5:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Goshen, Laramie | 45 min |
| Aug 1, 5:09 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Laramie | 51 min |
| Aug 1, 5:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Laramie | 45 min |
| Aug 1, 5:42 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | CYS | Laramie | 33 min |
| Aug 1, 6:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Laramie | 45 min |
| Aug 1, 6:46 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Weld | 44 min |
| Aug 1, 7:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Kimball | 30 min |
| Aug 1, 7:23 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Cheyenne | 52 min |
| Aug 1, 7:46 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Logan, Phillips, Sedgwick | 44 min |
| Aug 1, 8:06 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Logan, Washington | 39 min |
| Aug 1, 8:24 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Logan, Phillips, Sedgwick, Washington | 66 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 1, 1:51 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Kit Carson, Lincoln, Logan, Morgan, Washington, Weld and 1 more | 114 min |
| Aug 1, 3:50 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arapahoe, Bent, Costilla, Crowley, Elbert, El Paso and 6 more | 115 min |
| Aug 1, 4:58 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Weld | 2 hr |
| Jul 31, 7:09 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Big Horn, Campbell, Hot Springs, Johnson, Sheridan, Washakie | 2 hr |
| Aug 1, 3:56 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Campbell, Crook, Weston | 7 hr |
| Aug 1, 5:37 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Campbell, Crook, Johnson, Natrona, Weston | 83 min |
Nearby
Tornado Watches in Colorado, 2025Tornado Watches in Nebraska, 2025Tornado Watches in Wyoming, 2025Every tornado watch in 2025
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.